James Everett is a British composer, producer, and writer of scores and music for film and television. Before becoming a film composer, he wrote and produced EDM and commercial club music, and was one half of the Hard Trance act Electroheadz. He notably produced and co-wrote the 2006 Hit Dancing In The Dark performed by Jessy De Smet. He scored his first short Mr Happy in 2013. After a few years of scoring short films and ads, he was commissioned to compose the music of his first feature film in 2016, Bad Day For The Cut directed by Chris Baugh. He has since scored multiple projects including The Dig directed by Ryan and Andy Tohill, the documentary The Dakota Entrapment Tapes directed by Trevor Birney, the BBC drama Counsel, and the film Back Medicine directed by Colum Eastwood. Born in Swansea, Wales, he now lives in Northern Ireland.
